My First Fondant Person!

Good Morning!

I had a dream about making people out of fondant last night which led me to finally post this cake this morning.

I made it for my friend Rachel who is also my brother-in-law’s girlfriend.

Here is the real Rachel (I hope she doesn’t mind me posting this!):

And here is the cake Rachel:

It’s a three-layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling between the layers, some sprinkles on the bottom and some dark chocolate shavings on the top.

I used a toothpick inside the body to hold her torso and head up. My first attempt didn’t turn out very well because the head was too heavy and it just kept getting shorter and shorter from the weight.

I wanted to do the face differently but I don’t have edible markers yet so I just had to use tiny pieces of fondant.

Alright time to get some coffee and read blogs until I have to get ready for work! Tonight should be relaxing then tomorrow night Aaron’s band has a show at Howler’s in Bloomfield. Come out!

Happy Friday!!

Chocolate/Chocolate Cupcakes & Vanilla/Strawberry Cupcakes

Sep23

Good Morning!

I’m sooo happy the week is almost over. AH! Last night I baked cupcakes for a 30th birthday. I baked dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and vanilla cupcakes filled with strawberry filling and covered with strawberry buttercream.

I made cake toppers out of fondant. The blue and yellow ones say Happy Birthday Dana and then I made a few flowers and then I also made a TINY kayak, tennis racket and climbing wall. Oh my gosh these were so hard to make! They’re seriously tiny. I kept smashing the little climbing person and had to remake her. AH!

Chocolate on chocolate with a few chocolate sprinkles on top:

Tiny kayak, climbing wall and tennis racket:

See the tiny climber?

I tried to put some non-pareils on these also but they wouldn’t really stick.

Packaged and ready to go:

Alright time for me to get ready for work. I have to make ten cake pops this evening for Friday but then no baking this weekend I think! Aaron and I don’t have any plans Saturday but then we’re running the Great Race 10k on Sunday!!

Have a good Thursday!

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream (and shaving giant chocolate bars)

Sep20

It’s 9:03 PM right now. I’ve been sitting on the couch fighting with the fonts on my blog. I finally just gave up and decided to blog instead. Aaron is sitting next to me reading a book for his Women & Literature class. He’s taking undergraduate classes at Pitt right now in preparation for doing the Masters of Education program in a year or two. Teacher husband.

Moving on, I baked this cake yesterday for two coworker’s birthdays. They requested chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I used my chocolate cake pope recipe and three 9 inch cake pans. I ended up having a little extra batter so Aaron made a tiny 6 inch cake with the leftovers.

(Later in the day, he ate the entire frosted mini-cake after having only eaten scones and tortilla chips all day. He wasn’t feeling very well the rest of that evening…)

Anyway, it’s s three layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream in between each of the layers, covered in chocolate buttercream and sliced almonds on the sides. I shaved some dark chocolate for the chocolate shavings on top.